UK judge: Social network sites differ from press (AP)
LONDON ? The British judge presiding over a wide-ranging inquiry into media ethics and practices has suggested that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter should be seen differently than traditional publishers.
Lord Justice Brian Leveson said Thursday that there was a distinction between what he described as “pub chatter” between friends on such sites and organizations which publish material for public consumption.
Leveson’s inquiry was set up in the wake of Britain’s phone hacking scandal and has the power to recommend far-reaching changes to the way the country’s media are regulated.
The judge also is considering whether nontraditional forms of media, such as blogs, should be submitted to any eventual new rules.
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Mitt Romney’s Tax Returns, Like Those Of Biden, Bush, Etc., Offer Clues To Character
The tax returns of prominent officeholders are scrutinized not just for details about the individuals’ financial lives, but for clues about their character. Mitt Romney’s returns, released Tuesday after weeks of pressure from his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, have been eyeballed more closely than an eighth-grade boy’s first pornographic magazine. The returns reveal, as expected, an extremely wealthy individual who benefits enormously from the lower tax rate on investment income.
One can certainly draw conclusions about Romney’s character from his statements about that tax rate, which indicate he thinks he is paying his fair share. But the returns also suggest piety: Romney and his wife, Ann, donated more than $4 million in 2010 and 2011 to the Mormon church — a 10 percent tithe on their more than $40 million in adjusted gross income for those years.
A Huffington Post review of the past tax filings of presidents and vice presidents turned up other details that may help provide a better understanding of the people behind the numbers.
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, have cleaned house, it seems. In their 2010 tax return, the Bidens say they donated $3,800 in “clothing and household goods” with a fair market value of $950 to a Goodwill site in Wilmington, Del.
Ted Sikorski, a Goodwill spokesman, said that Wilmington area stores receive 400,000 donations a year and that the organization doesn’t keep track of who donates what, so there is no telling whether those donations included Jill Biden’s vintage dresses or Joe Biden’s old gym socks. But if you bought a pair of pants from a Delaware Goodwill store recently and found an Amtrak ticket stub in the pocket — well, who knows.
That the Bidens bothered to claim such a small tax write-off says something about their finances. They reported adjusted gross income of $379,178 in 2010 — a nice payday for most Americans, but considerably less than many members of Congress, and also less than Joe Biden’s boss and his wife, who earned $1,728,096 in 2010. That was, in turn, considerably less than the $5.5 million that Barack and Michelle Obama reported in 2009, mostly from book sales.
In 1969, Richard Nixon claimed a $576,000 deduction for donating his own papers to the government — a tax trick that likely wouldn’t fly today, at least not politically. According to the inventory included with the return, those papers included “15,000 items from the visit to the United States of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.”
Other tidbits: In 1983, Ronald and Nancy Reagan reported $3,300 in rent collected from a radio station that operated on vacant land he owned near his beloved Santa Barbara, Calif., ranch. Bill and Hillary Clinton claimed a deduction on $38,683 in moving expenses in 1993, the year they moved from Arkansas to the White House. Barbara Bush earned a $1,000 “signer’s fee” from Reader’s Digest in 1990, according to the tax return jointly filed with George H.W. Bush.
The most revealing return, reflecting both a different age of presidential prerogative and still-current themes of a tax system that befuddles most filers, came from Franklin Roosevelt. In 1937, he reported $82,392 in net income, but couldn’t figure out how much to pay. His solution: he sent a $15,000 check and a letter to the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
“I am wholly unable to figure out the amount of the tax for the following reasons,” Roosevelt wrote before launching into an explanation of how tax rates had changed the prior year. “As this is a problem in higher mathematics, may I ask that the Bureau let me know the amount of the balance due?” he concluded.
Romney’s 2010 tax return, longer than any past president’s at 203 pages, shows he isn’t willing to trust the government to tell him what he owes.
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/mitt-romney-tax-returns-clues-character_n_1233772.html
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Ferris Bueller Super Bowl Ad Likely A Honda Commercial
Matthew Broderick may be returning to classic 1986 role, but this time behind the wheel of a CR-V.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller in a Super Bowl tease
A 10-second preview of a Super Bowl ad took the internet by storm on Thursday. The clip featured actor Matthew Broderick throwing open the curtains of a window, looking into the camera and asking, “How can I handle work on a day like today?”
That’s before the classic “bow-bow-chicka-chicka” from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” plays, ending the preview with just the date of the Super Bowl left to tease us.
It seems clear that Broderick reprises the role of Ferris Bueller, but the preview told us nothing else. The YouTube video listed no company and didn’t suggest the product that the ad would ultimately feature.
MTV News reached out to both Broderick and one of the producers of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” Tom Jacobson, for comment, but neither responded to our requests.
Then Friday (January 27), the automotive blog Jalopnik reported that a source “familiar with Honda’s operations” revealed that Ferris will appear in a commercial for the car company during the Super Bowl. “The source also added that the spot was going to mimic much of the original film, except this time prominently featuring Hondas,” Jalopnik reported. “The big jump the two valets do in Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari? We hear this time it’s going to be a Honda CR-V.”
Jalopnik’s source also said Honda apparently put a lot of money behind the ad, even going as far as to hire “The Hangover” director Todd Phillips to create the spot.
Although the Honda story sounds likely, we will have to wait until February 5 to find out exactly what Ferris has been up to.
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1678057/ferris-bueller-super-bowl-ad-matthew-broderick.jhtml
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Bucs name Rutgers’ Schiano as head coach (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? The Tampa Bay Buccaneers named Greg Schiano as their new head coach on Thursday, hoping the former U.S. college football coach can turn around a National Football League (NFL) team that has not made the playoffs in four seasons.
The team said the deal was for five years and that Schiano, 45, will be formally introduced during a news conference on Friday at 1 p.m. ET (1800 GMT).
Schiano, who spent the last 11 seasons as coach at Rutgers University in New Jersey and compiled a 68-67 record, replaces Raheem Morris, who was fired after a 4-12 campaign that left the Buccaneers in last place in the NFC South division.
“Coach Schiano is a bright, meticulous teacher who knows how to get the most out of his players,” Buccaneers General Manager Mark Dominik said in a statement.
“He built and ran a pro-style program at Rutgers, and he’s a defensive-minded coach whose teams have always been characterized by toughness and a physical style of play.”
The defensive-minded Schiano will be expected to help a Buccaneers team that ended the 2011 NFL season with a league-worst 494 points allowed.
He spent six seasons under the late Joe Paterno at Penn State as a graduate assistant and defensive backfield coach before being hired by the NFL’s Chicago Bears, where he was a defensive assistant and defensive backfield coach from 1996-98.
At Rutgers, Schiano guided the Scarlet Knights to six Bowl game appearances and earned a reputation for developing NFL-caliber players.
In the last five NFL Drafts, 13 Rutgers players have been selected, including three first round picks.
“During our thorough search, we met with numerous impressive candidates, but coach Schiano surely distinguished himself,” said Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer. “From his leadership skills to his considerable track record, he is, simply put, the right man for the job.”
(Reporting by Steve Keating in Toronto, Editing by Frank Pingue)
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33 whales shot in New Zealand after rescues failed
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ? Conservation staff in New Zealand have put down 33 stranded whales after several attempts to refloat them failed.
The pilot whales shot Thursday were the last of 99 that stranded themselves Monday on Farewell Spit on the South Island. Department of Conservation area manager John Mason says staff and hundreds of volunteers had tried all week to get the whales refloated.
He says they thought they were successful Wednesday when they got the whales into deep water ? but were saddened Thursday to find that they had swum back ashore. He says the condition of the whales had significantly deteriorated.
As well as the 33 whales that were shot, 36 had died naturally since Monday and 17 were successfully refloated. Thirteen remain unaccounted for.
Associated Press
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Actor Armie Hammer nabbed in Texas for marijuana (AP)
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas ? Authorities say Hollywood actor Armie Hammer was arrested at a border patrol checkpoint in West Texas after a drug sniffing dog discovered marijuana in his car.
The 25-year-old, who starred with Leonardo DiCaprio in “J. Edgar,” spent about a day in jail before paying a $1,000 bond.
Arrest records show he had 0.02 ounces of marijuana, three medicinal marijuana cookies and one brownie when arrested Nov. 20 in Sierra Blanca, a few miles from the Mexican border.
El Paso’s district attorney declined to prosecute because a felony requires more than 4 ounces of actual marijuana. The county attorney could pursue lesser charges since the case is going back to the local sheriff, but Hammer’s lawyer Kent Schaffer says no charges have been presented.
Hammer also starred in “The Social Network.”
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Compassion Without Passion
Dear Lonely,
I’m sorry you are in such a terrible situation. Finding yourself the caretaker for a brain-damaged spouse is one of the toughest things that can befall a married person. Please read this story from the Washington Post, written by my friend Susan Baer about a situation similar to yours. Robert Melton was a talented reporter and editor at the Washington Post (and a colleague of my husband?s) when in 2003, at age 46, he had a heart attack that caused a severe, permanent brain injury from oxygen deprivation. His wife, Page, was in her 30s and was left with two small daughters and a husband who was like a child. Eventually she placed Robert in assisted living. She and the girls visited frequently, and Page thought this was her life. But a few years later at a reunion, she reconnected with a former classmate, and eventually they fell in love. She divorced Robert and remarried. But there?s a stunning and moving twist. Robert?s family was at the wedding to support Page, and when her new husband, Allan, spoke his vows he said that he would always help care for Robert. Robert moved across the country with them, where he is in another assisted living facility. The two men have breakfast weekly, and Robert is often at the house visiting his daughters.
Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=c2ff60640ee291bc707110ca27ad2602
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High animal fat diet increases gestational diabetes risk, study finds
ScienceDaily (Jan. 25, 2012) ? Women who consumed a diet high in animal fat and cholesterol before pregnancy were at higher risk for gestational diabetes than women whose diets were lower in animal fat and cholesterol, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University.
Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes seen during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes increases the risk for certain pregnancy complications and health problems in the newborn.
Women whose diets were high in total fat or other kinds of fats — but not in animal fat or cholesterol — did not have an increased risk.
Moreover, the increased risk for gestational diabetes seen with animal fat and cholesterol appeared to be independent of other, dietary and non-dietary, risk factors for gestational diabetes. For example, exercise is known to reduce the risk of gestational diabetes. Among women who exercised, however, those who consumed higher amounts of animal fat and cholesterol had a higher risk than those whose diets were lower in these types of fat.
“Our findings indicate that women who reduce the proportion of animal fat and cholesterol in their diets before pregnancy may lower their risk for gestational diabetes during pregnancy,” said senior author Cuilin Zhang, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., of the Epidemiology Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), one of three NIH institutes supporting the study.
The researchers concluded that changing the source of 5 percent of dietary calories from animal fat to plant-derived sources could decrease a woman’s risk for gestational diabetes by 7 percent.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture website, ChooseMyPlate.gov, contains information on healthy eating for children and adults, as well as health and nutrition information for pregnant and breast feeding women.
First author Katherine Bowers, Ph.D., conducted the research with NICHD colleagues Dr. Zhang and Edwina Yeung, Ph.D., and with Deirdre K. Tobias and Frank B. Hu, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., of Harvard University, in Boston.
Their findings appear online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The research was also funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
The researchers utilized information from more than 13,000 women participating in the Nurses’ Health Study II. The women were 22 to 45 years old when they enrolled in the study. Every two years they responded to questions on their general health, pregnancy status, and lifestyle habits, such as consuming alcohol or smoking. In addition, every four years they completed a comprehensive survey about the kinds of food and drink they consumed.
About 6 percent of the participants reported having been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. The researchers calculated the amount of animal fat in participants’ diets as a percentage of total calories and divided participants into five groups, or quintiles, based on those percentages. Then the researchers compared the risk for developing gestational diabetes for each group. Women in the highest quintile of intake had almost double the risk for gestational diabetes compared to women in the lowest quintile.
They also observed that women in the highest quintile for cholesterol consumption were 45 percent more likely to develop gestational diabetes than were women in the lowest quintile.
“This is the largest study to date of the effects of a pre-pregnancy diet on gestational diabetes,” Dr. Bowers said. “Additional research may lead to increased understanding of how a mother’s diet before and during pregnancy influences her metabolism during pregnancy, which may have important implications for the baby’s health at birth and later in life.”
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Wavii Wants To ?Make Facebook Out Of Google,? Bring Relevant Content To You
The problem of how to find relevant content on the web has yet to be solved on a mass scale. You’ve got cyborg news aggregators like Techmeme and Google news and social aggregators like Reddit and Digg competing with Twitter and the Facebook Newsfeed, all of them trying to get you the news that you want to know, as fast as possible. The Seattle-based Wavii, which has been in super stealth mode until now, takes a different approach to the problem. The startup uses natural language processing and machine learning to parse far corners of the web and bring users personalized content based on their Facebook Likes and feedback. Upon entering Wavii via Facebook Connect, you are asked to pick a combination of 12 topics that pertain to you and rinse, repeat. Wavii picks these initial interests by processing your Facebook Likes, and adjusts itself as you give it more data.
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LMtGGe__x4o/
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Liv Tyler Approves of Dad Steven Tyler’s Fiancee
Liv Tyler is big fan of her father’s, whether it’s his gig on American Idol or his choice in fiancée.
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